📝 AITAH For not interacting much my friend after I crashed my car

By stoopid_uwu • Score: 1 • April 25, 2025 1:39 PM


This happened last year so I'll try and explain the details best I can.

I crashed my car in wet weather going around a roundabout, luckily I only managed to swipe the front end of my car but I was still really shaken. Thought the accident wasn't super bad, I still can't drive a car because of my trauma from it.

For context, the days before I had been at my best friend's house and had arguments with my ex afterwards. My now boyfriend lives nearby and knows my friend. I was at their house the day before my argument and went to my boyfriend's house the night of as I could hear arguing inside my friends house and chose to go to his as to not disturb them. I didn't drive home that night because the argument had shaken me and I wanted a shoulder to cry on.

Next day I drove home from my boyfriend's and that's when the crash happened. As he was the last person I talked with and knows his way around cars, he was the first person on my mind to reach out to for help. He was there in the next 10 minutes and we organised that he would take me home and pick up my car later as I was too shaken to drive or even walk straight.

I had told my mother before we left that I had crashed and let her know where my car was, but she wasn't happy about my leaving it there. She called my friend and her father, who I was with the day before, and they came to help me move my car and get me back to theirs.

This is where they think I'm the AH. When my friend pulled up with their dad, they had brought a plushie and a hoodie for me and was kinda awkwardly asking me if I was ok, though it was obvious they were concerned. I didn't really speak much but I said I wasn't injured and was ok. Apparently in that conversation, they had asked me to come back in their car, which I didn't hear so I drove back with my bf. When we got the car back to theirs, which they said I could leave at theirs for the time being until it was fixed, they asked me if I wanted to come inside, which I also didn't hear. I was standing next to my bf and he nudged me and asked to come back to his to watch over me which I numbly agreed to and walked over.

Apparently in this time my friend had come back out looking for me and was upset and pissed off that I had left with him when they had come all the way out to help, even though it was my mother that called and I didn't directly ask them. I did say thank you for helping the next day, but they said it was an asshole thing to not at least come inside with them and they wanted my car moved off their property. I get their point of view but I had just crashed and I wasn't thinking straight, so anything I did or didn't hear wasn't on purpose.

It took me a while to earn their forgiveness, I had to call them and their dad and apologize multiple times, but I don't think they fully forgave me for it.

So what I'm really wondering is AITAH for not coming inside with them or interacting with them more when they came to help?

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